Little Falls transcript., 1887-03-25

summer 10 probably the cause OF this The
ground was left very dry, and as q conse-
quence the moisture has almost entirely
been sapped up by it. This condition OF
things extends almost to the Missouri. M
The secretary Of the intsrior has not yet
been able to execute the act providing for
the allotment OF lands in severalty to In
which, without being ambiguous, require
regulations to prescribe their exact effect.
| and the secretary is clothed with the full
power to issue these instructions OF regu.
| lations to the respective Indian agents.
The secretary of the interior has request
cd the attorney general to bring criminal
proceedings against r. L. Elder OF Detroit,
Mimi, for cutting timber on land in section
80, town 138, range 40, which he had taken
up as q homestead, but afterward aban-
| doned. Special Agent Chamberlain, re.
ports that Elder had cut from the land
1877 cords of wood worth $3.50 per cord
at the mill. Sixty cords he hauled off and
sold, and the remainder lay on the place.
As civil suit would not stand with any
show Of success, q criminal suit was recon-
| mended. Y
Capt. G. e. Tyson, OF the arctic expedi.
| tion vessel Polaris, has been appointed
| captain OF the watch OF the war, state and
| navy building.
Senator Mr.. Mcpherson eats q bowl oi
| mush and milk before going to a dinner
party and eats very little dinner.
! Secretary Bayard's daughter enters the
| list of favored ones, Ex-senator Fair pre-.
\ senting her with 81, 900 riding horse the
| day before he left Washington.
Mrs. Adele Gratiot Washburne, vile OF
Hon. e. r. Washburne, ex-minister to
France. died in Chicago. Mrs. Washburne
enjoyed comparatively good health during
| the winter, though she had several slight
attacks of winter cholera, all OF which
yielded to remedies. On the 7th inst. she
was taken very i'll and confined to her bed,
| from which she never rose.
The California legislature has appropri.
ated about $4,000 to enable the state
| forestry commission to extend its work oil
| preventing the destruction of growing trees
and the consequent denudation of the soil,
and OF encouraging tree planting in q sys-
tematic manner.
Capt. J ohm Carlin, department command.
er OF the G. A. r. OF West Virginia, and q
| veteran OF. the Rebellion and Mexican
wars, died at Wheeling, aged sixty. eight.
Oswald Ottendorier, proprietor of the
New York Staats- Zeitung, recently gave
IT'S OF his faithful employees dividend oil
10 per cent. on their total earnings for the
year.
It is expected that the French govern.
ment will dissolve the municipal co uncil at
Marseilles for manifesting approval OF the
Paris Commune OF 1871.
George 8. Strickles was arrested at
Racine by United States Marshal West,
charged with sending circulars through the
Offering agencies for the sale OF clock OF
peculiar mechanism upon the receipt of a
specified sum for a sample.
Cattle in Grant county, Wis, are report.
ed to be dying in considerable numbers OF
a disease, the origin and name of which
are unknown. Many farmers have lost
stock which was apparently we'll at night
but dead before morning.
It is stated that the new alliance among
Germany, Austria and Italy places each
| of these powers on an equality.
S. G. Lister, the silk king OF England, has
an income OF $75O,OOO year from his
factories alone.
The Warsaw Salt Works, N. Y, took fire
from the explosion OF lamp in an eleva-
tor. The new block was entirely destroyed
together with the refinery. The loss is es.
timated at from $50, 900 to 500, 900; in
surance from $40, 1000 to $4,000.
The Indian wife OF Charles Hale has be-.
gun suit at Wabash, Ind, for divorce, al.
leging cruelty, adultery, etc. In 1881
Nancy Wacaconah, the plaintiff adver-
tised for a white husband, ,.and the alliance
with Hale was the result.
The announcement that the appoint.
ment of Hon. Benton J. Hall OF Iowa as
commissioner OF patents has been deter
mined upon is received by all parties in Bur.
lington, Iowa, with great satisfaction. The
position was rendered him by Secretary
Lamar several weeks ago, and Mr.. Hall
has signified his acceptance, though it in
wolves the surrender of lucrative law
practice in Iowa.
G. H. Lewis, one OF the prominent early
settlers OF Hudson, Wis, died ofparalysis.
Maj. Bush, army paymaster, is robbed
in Wyoming.
Postoftice site changed: Minnesota:
Minnesota: Lindsay, Polk county. Post
master COMMUNICATIONS: Cedar, w.
Schultz. Fourth-class postmasters ap.
pointed-Dakota: Buffalo Center, F. A.
Rowe; Buish, E. Buish; Claremont, H. C..
Hamilton; Cosat, E. E. Holiday; Thatch.
er, 81. Holderness.
Henry B. Rumsey OF New York, who was
one of the guests at the Richmond hotel,
was terribly burned about the body, died.
The Chicago republicans nominated
John A. Roche for mayor, C. H. Plantz
burne for city attorney.
ary OF $8,o 900 q year.
L. r. Lowry, conductor OF the freight in
the recent collision at Magnolia, OAK, who
has been under examinat ton before justice
Plummer at Fargo for two days past, was
discharged.
Walter Ridgley, q wealthy farmer at
Texacarna, Texas, shot and killed two fer
ry men with whom he was quarreling, and
who had tried to kill him. The uncle and
brother of one OF the dead men waylaid
Ridgey, who shot them both dead.
The treasury department. has issued a
circular to national and state banks in re-
gard to the Endorsement and payment OF
interest checks, which provides that in all
cases in which societies and lodges hold
United States bonds, in the names OF trust.
ees proper evidence of their election must
be filed in the office of the first auditor, and
tt at the certificates OF authority for the
Endorsement and collection of interest
checks must come from all the trustees and
not from the society or lodge.
James Burke, claiming to have been a
merchant and a school teacher at Sher.
luhL, 1OWHt uutAl q 5uVlV tiiuG dSOS udn Ju5G
returned to Chicago from New York, where
he claims to have been robbed of $500.
Further particulars about the tragedy
at Hastings, Neb., show that DR.. G. W.
Randall was killed by the eighteen-y year
old brother OF the girl whom he had ravish-
ed. Young Hart, with the smoking pistol
in his hand, coolly walked out of the court
room, no one attempting or caring to ar.
rest him, not even the sheriff, whom he
passed on the stairway. At the time
young Hart was unknown to the crowd.
David Clark, retired merchant, OF Hart
ford, has given his farm OF l, ,0S1 acres, in
the suburbs Of that city, to the Hartford
Hospital and tho Old Peoples Home The
donation includes 20 Jersey cattle and all